Blackwood Farm

Blackwood FarmIn her new novel, perennial bestseller Anne Rice fuses her two uniquely seductive strains of narrative her Vampire legend and her lore of the Mayfair witches to give us a world of classic deep south luxury and ancestral secrets. Welcome to Blackwood Farm: soaring white columns, spacious drawing rooms, bright, sun drenched gardens, and a dark strip of the dense Sugar Devil Swamp. This is the world of Quinn Blackwood, a brilliant young man haunted since

In her new novel, perennial bestseller Anne Rice fuses her two uniquely seductive strains of narrative -- her Vampire legend and her lore of the Mayfair witches -- to give us a world of classic deep-south luxury and ancestral secrets.

Welcome to Blackwood Farm: soaring white columns, spacious drawing rooms, bright, sun-drenched gardens, and a dark strip of the dense Sugar Devil Swamp. This is the world of Quinn Blackwood, a brilliant young man haunted since birth by a mysterious doppelg nger, "Goblin," a spirit from a dream world that Quinn can't escape and that prevents him from belonging anywhere. When Quinn is made a Vampire, losing all that is rightfully his and gaining an unwanted immortality, his doppelg nger becomes even more vampiric and terrifying than Quinn himself.

As the novel moves backwards and forwards in time, from Quinn's boyhood on Blackwood Farm to present day New Orleans, from ancient Athens to 19th-century Naples, Quinn seeks out the legendary Vampire Lestat in the hope of freeing himself from the spectre that draws him inexorably back to Sugar Devil Swamp and the explosive secrets it holds.

A story of youth and promise, of loss and the search for love, of secrets and destiny, Blackwood Farm is Anne Rice at her mesmerizing best.

Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
Published: 10/29/2002
ISBN: 9780375411991
Pages: 544
Weight: 2.07lbs
Size: 9.50h x 6.58w x 1.63d

Review Citations: Library Journal Prepub Alert 06/01/2002 pg. 116
Kirkus Reviews 07/15/2002 pg. 989
Booklist 08/01/2002 pg. 1887
Library Journal 09/01/2002 pg. 216
Publishers Weekly 09/02/2002 pg. 52
Romantic Times 11/01/2002 pg. 41 - Excellent
People Weekly 11/04/2002 pg. 51
Entertainment Weekly 11/08/2002 pg. 112
Library Journal 06/01/2002
Publishers Weekly 09/03/2002

Accelerated Reader Quiz #/Name: 65040 / Blackwood Farm
Reading Level: 6.3 / Interest Level: Upper Grade / Point Value: 35